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Dammi Il Cinque … High Fiving In Italy – Part 2 Posted by Serena on Apr 22, 2016
In my previous post we looked at how we use the irregular verbs dare (to give), dire (to say or tell), and fare (to do/make or let) in their imperative form, second person singular, followed by the direct or indirect object pronouns (you can revise them in part 1). Today we are going to look…
Dammi Il Cinque … High Fiving In Italy Posted by Serena on Apr 21, 2016
Dammi il cinque = gimme five In Italian, just as in English, words often get moulded together to form new, shorter, and more fluent words. The expression gimme five and its Italian equivalent dammi il cinque are good examples of this. Of course, you need to know the underlying grammatical rules if you’re going to…